He's retiring? I didn't know Andy Rooney was still *alive*.

Long time (like 40 years long time) 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney is finally retiring, presumably before he self-petrifies on the air. In honor of this, I'll let you get a flavor of his unique style courtesy of Mike and the bots.

Space X prepares for its inevitable bankruptcy

Well, that's the usual result when a private company announces the construction of a never before tested or used landing system. But it does make for a very pretty video.

Gacked from james_nicoll

Royce wonders how big a woody this gave Jerry Pournelle.

USMC Deploys Brigades of Amazons to the Middle East

Okay, not exactly. But referring to it as The Lioness Program brings to mind a squad of female Marines going head to head with Ghaddafi's Green Nuns.

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